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The Baby Factory
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This dramatic, futuristic sci-fi interior pulp illustration was created by Harold McCauley for an
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1940s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Mixed Media, Illustration Board

Sunflower
By David Hockney
Located in London, GB
'Sunflower' - a unique work by David Hockney made of hand-coloured paper pulp, on yellow TGL
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paper

Large Untitled Paper Piece by Paul Maxwell
Located in North Miami, FL
Impressively-scaled, pulp-on-paper piece by Paul Maxwell (American, 1925 - ). Raised, three
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1970s American Vintage Pulps

"Larch Trees in Spring", circa 1970, by Mayayoshi Kasugai
By Masayoshi Kasugai
Located in New York, NY
basic material was the inner bark of the "Koza" plant, which he would steam and made into a pulp. This
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1970s Japanese Vintage Pulps

21st Century Girl Walking Pet
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This spectacular otherworldly sci-fi pulp illustration painting by Harold McCauley was used as the
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1950s American Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Photograph of Comic Books at a Newstand, 1948
Located in Hudson, NY
many examples of leading comic books and pulp magazines of the post-war America. Photographer unknown
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1940s American Vintage Pulps

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

Three Mid-20thC Chinese Papier-Mâché Storage Buckets
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
its time, easily be molded into desired shapes. As indicated by its name, it was mashed or pulped
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1950s Chinese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paper

Buy My Love
By Fred Rodewald
Located in Minneapolis, MN
December, 1949 edition of the digest sized pulp fiction title Exotic Novel Magazine, which featured "Buy My
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1940s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Illustration Board, Watercolor

Abstraction #51
By Virgil Finlay
Located in Minneapolis, MN
pulp and science fiction illustrator. Signed and dated 1965 lower right and titled on verso #51
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1960s Abstract Vintage Pulps

Materials

Masonite, Mixed Media

The Scarlet Sinner
By Peter Driben
Located in Minneapolis, MN
scale, menace themed pulp painting appeared as the cover for the December 1941 issue of Expose Detective
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1940s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lu Kimmel painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
this pulp novel was in June 1955, so I would assume the painting was done just prior. The photograph
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20th Century American Vintage Pulps

Materials

Board

Mitsumasa Sugasawa for Tendo Mokko “Heron” Rocker
By Tendo Mokko, Mitsumasa Sugasawa
Located in San Francisco, CA
pulp leg fills provide strong support while highlighting the nice doubled-back design detail of the
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1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Upholstery, Oak, Bentwood

Unique Life-Size Papier-Mâché Plaster Painted Model of a Dog
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
pulped paper, which was first, molded, then baked, to drive off the moisture that had reduced it to pulp
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Mid-20th Century European Vintage Pulps

Materials

Plaster

Doris Jenney, Connecticut Landscape, circa 1960s
By Doris Jenney
Located in Pau, FR
painter. Her husband, Robert 'Bob' Jenney, was a famous pulp artist. In 1947 they moved to Springdale, CT
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Paint

20th Century Papier-Mâché Blue Painted Model of a Cat, circa 1992
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
. As indicated by its name, it was mashed or pulped paper, which was first, molded, then baked, to
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1990s English Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paper

How to Hypnotize
By Virgil Finlay
Located in Minneapolis, MN
pulp cover illustration from this long running title, this was for many years part of the storied
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1950s Art Deco Vintage Pulps

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Consumed by the Flames
By Rafael DeSoto
Located in Minneapolis, MN
thrilled by the lurid and dramatic pulp style of this piece.
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1950s American Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Circa 1970 work by Masayoshi Kasugai, "Early in the Morning"
Located in New York, NY
pulp and fibers until he was happy with the composition. The piece was then peeled from the screen and
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1970s Japanese Vintage Pulps

Black Magic Holiday
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This original oil on canvas painting, used as the cover for the January 1955 pulp digest
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1950s Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large Mid-20thC Painted Papier-Mâché Nodding Elephant, c.1940-60
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
molded into desired shapes. As indicated by its name, it was mashed or pulped paper, which was first
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1950s English High Victorian Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paper

Carnival of Lust
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
the 1959 Nightstand digest pulp novel Carnival of Lust by J.X. Williams. In this offering a near-nude
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1950s Art Deco Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Industrial Heavy Wood Workbench
Located in Hudson, NY
that it looks beaten to a pulp. Next, it has very pleasing proportions that give it a very appealing
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20th Century American Vintage Pulps

Materials

Wood

Beacon Book Cover for Wild Body
Located in Minneapolis, MN
also has that earlier cover painting available for sale. This lurid sleaze pulp fiction offering
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1960s Art Deco Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

The Pin-up and the P.I.
By Rafael DeSoto
Located in Minneapolis, MN
by the sensuous, moody pulp style of this piece.
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1950s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Gambling Man
By Virgil Finlay
Located in Minneapolis, MN
An inventive example of modern abstract art by the prolific pulp artist Virgil Finlay, signed and
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1960s Abstract Vintage Pulps

Materials

Masonite, Mixed Media

Dead On Delivery
By Rafael DeSoto
Located in Minneapolis, MN
captured the fear, terror and danger which were the calling cards of the menace pulp titles of the era and
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1940s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board

House Party
By Edward Moritz
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Pulp and paperback artist Edward Mortiz created this sultry blonde in full on hot mess mode
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1960s American Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Board, Canvas, Oil

Teen-Age Terror
By James Meese
Located in Minneapolis, MN
delinquency told in actual cases of violence and sex," and the image is a masterpiece of dark macabre pulp
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1950s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Masonite, Oil

C. 1970 "Rock at Sea" Pair of paintings by Masayoshi Kasugai
Located in New York, NY
created art by macerating strips from the inner bark of the Kozo tree, hand dying the paper pulp, an then
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1970s Japanese Vintage Pulps

Materials

Silver Leaf

Mambo to Murder
By Harry Barton
Located in Minneapolis, MN
"the steps of a dance macabre" in the lurid pulp fiction novel by Ronal Kayser, writing under the
Category

1950s Art Deco Vintage Pulps

Materials

Illustration Board, Oil

Spawn of Doom
By Lloyd Birmingham
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This original gouache pulp magazine cover painting by Lloyd Birmingham which appeared as the cover
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1960s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Marihuana
By Bill Fleming
Located in Minneapolis, MN
name of William Irish. An early and iconic pulp paperback cover. This original illustration is a
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1940s Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Mixed Media, Paper

Paula Has A Price
By Fred Rodewald
Located in Minneapolis, MN
A Price!"; by pulp author Peggy Gaddis (writing under the pseudonym Perry Lindsay). Included with
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1940s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Ground Control
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
In the 1960s, after a successful career as a pulp and later paperback cover artist, Harold McCauley
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1960s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Amazing Stories Cover
By Alex Schomburg
Located in Minneapolis, MN
This remarkable gouache pulp cover painting by Alex Schomburg appeared on the February, 1961 issue
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1960s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

The Girl From the Mimosa Club
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Gardner's pulp fiction novels were about to burst onto the TV scene and become an American pop culture
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1950s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Illustration Board, Mixed Media

The Soda Jerk
By Ray Johnson
Located in Minneapolis, MN
which started as a pulp and later transitioned as a mens action magazine title. The gouache painting is
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1940s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Teen-Age Gangs
By Rafael DeSoto
Located in Minneapolis, MN
pulp-fiction paperback art. Sight Size 19 1/2" X 30 1/2"
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1950s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Oil

Danish 1960s Sewing Table by Johannes Andersen for CFC Silkeborg
By Johannes Andersen, CFC Silkeborg
Located in Amstelveen, NL
contains special units for sewing necessities. The second and bottom drawer consists of a pulp cane
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1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Rattan, Rosewood

The Path Between
By Paul Rader
Located in Minneapolis, MN
pulp genre. The 1st edition played up the taboo subject with the slug line "The Bizarre World Of The
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1950s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Trailer Camp Woman
Located in Minneapolis, MN
the kind of fine line between truth and titillation sleaze that pulp paperback publishers monetized in
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1960s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Carney s Burlesque
By Walter Popp
Located in Minneapolis, MN
paperback publishers Uni-books; a reissue of a British pulp story that changed both the name of the
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1950s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Oil

The Miracle Of Ronald Weems
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
conservation. A complete high grade copy of the published pulp magazine is included in the sale. Sight size
Category

1950s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Board, Canvas, Oil

Madame Penal
By Mort Künstler
Located in Minneapolis, MN
commonly known, followed the blueprint set by the pulp magazines of the previous generation, depicting
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1950s American Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache

The Gods of Voodoo
By Harold McCauley
Located in Minneapolis, MN
collision of beauty and darkness which is in essence what makes the pulp cover paintings by H.J. Ward, H.W
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1950s Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Man with a Briefcase (B)
By Jonathan Borofsky
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Man with a Briefcase (B), 1991 woodcut in white printed on La Paloma Paper with pulp collage
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20th Century Abstract Vintage Pulps

Materials

Woodcut, Handmade Paper

Cry Shame
By Harry Bennett
Located in Minneapolis, MN
publishing made it impossible for him to be a "serious" literary author. Though published under a pulp
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1950s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Hell Cat
By Harry Barton
Located in Minneapolis, MN
imagery that helped draw readers to the taboo and lurid stories put out by pulp paperback publishers
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1950s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

All America s Clicking!
By Cardwell Higgins
Located in Minneapolis, MN
One of the most prolific yet unheralded American pulp, advertising, and pin-up illustrators of the
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1940s American Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Ink, Gouache, Pen

1968 1st Edition Harry Gordon Cat Dress
By Harry Gordon
Located in Rockwood, ON
tissue, wood pulp and rayon mesh these were all the rage. Most did not survive as they were meant to be
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1960s Vintage Pulps

Love Knows No Barriers
By James Avati
Located in Minneapolis, MN
chickens and writing pulp fiction for magazines like True Romance and Argosy. Largely forgotten today
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1950s Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Oil

Fairest Flower
By Zoë Mozert
Located in Minneapolis, MN
leading pulp and movie magazine cover illustrator, Zoe Mozert signed on a staff artist with Brown &
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1940s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paste, Illustration Board

True Strange Marilyn Monroe
By Tom Beecham
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Strange Magazine. The title is fascinating to us, an attempt to merge the men's magazine post-war-pulp
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1950s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Illustration Board, Laid Paper, Oil

As I Opened Fire (Triptych) 1964
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
take on melodramatic pulp fiction of the era. Themes of irony and cliché prevailed throughout the
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1960s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Lithograph

Norway s Partisan Nymph
By Mort Künstler
Located in Minneapolis, MN
by the pulp magazines of the previous generation, depicting perceived enemies as savages, Nazis, and
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1960s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

New Western Cowboy Pulp Cover
By Sam Cherry
Located in Minneapolis, MN
pulp spectacle of a rugged cowboy holding a hapless hostage in a chokehold with his handcuffs as he
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1940s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Pulp Fiction" 1995 French Grande Film Poster
Located in New York, NY
Original 1995 French Grande poster by Bittler for. Fine condition, folded. Many original posters were issued folded or were subsequently folded. Please note: the size is stated in in...
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1990s French Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paper

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Vintage Pulps For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of vintage pulps available on 1stDibs. The range of distinct vintage pulps — often made from paper — can elevate any home. There are all kinds of vintage pulps available, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. Barye Phillips produced beautiful vintage pulps that are worth considering.

How Much are Vintage Pulps?

Vintage pulps can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $1,037, while the lowest priced sells for $519 and the highest can go for as much as $3,500.